Commercial virtual reality centre opens for business

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A $250 million virtual reality centre has been opened at RMIT University in Melbourne - the first commercial centre of its kind in Australia.

The centre offers virtual reality technology to a wide range of industries, such as architecture, car design and urban planning.

Centre manager Gary Eves says it can also be used to simulate hazardous environments such as chemical and gas plants.

"It's very difficult to train people on the real item, because it's either producing product or it's a dangerous and hazardous environment," he said.

"What we can do is we can simulate that environment in incredibly accurate detail and then take people through procedures and processes using the model and they can interact with it in the way they would in the real world."